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On 16 February 2020, just a few hours after her partner Xu Zhiyong, a leading Chinese human rights lawyer, was detained, women’s rights and labour activist Li Qiaochu went missing. China’s state security bodies would hold her incommunicado for four months under the system known as ‘residential (...)
A UN rights expert on Wednesday slammed a years-long crackdown on rights defenders and lawyers in China, highlighting the case of one attorney who disappeared after revealing he was tortured in detention.
Mary Lawlor, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, warned (...)
Rights activists and their lawyers continue to be charged, detained, disappeared and tortured according to UN special rapporteur on situation of human rights defenders.
A United Nations rights expert has slammed a years-long crackdown on rights defenders and legal professionals in China, (...)
Chinese authorities have formally arrested two detained activists, including one who called for President Xi Jinping to step down over COVID-19, relatives and fellow campaigners said Thursday.
Prominent figures Ding Jiaxi and Xu Zhiyong attended a secret meeting involving lawyers and human (...)
China human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng has been sentenced to four years imprisonment and deprivation of political rights for three years following a conviction for “inciting subversion of state power.”
Yu was arrested in Xuzhou in January 2018 and was also charged with obstructing the duties of (...)
Arrested in ‘709’ crackdown, Wang says he was interrogated around the clock and held in four detention centres and two other secret locations. Authorities were determined to jail me and the courts broke their own laws, he says.
Released human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang has said he committed no (...)
Authorities expand detention of activists and censorship ahead of 4 June.
Chinese authorities have detained dozens of people as part of a ramped-up annual crackdown ahead of the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre .
Tuesday will mark 30 years since the bloody event, which saw Chinese (...)
A video taken on a train in southern China allegedly showed a man fondling a five-year-old girl, sparking outrage
There has been outrage in China after police dropped the investigation of a case involving a father allegedly molesting his five-year-old daughter on a train in southeastern China, (...)
All organisations promoting religious messages on the internet will have to apply for licenses
China has drawn up new draft guidelines to crack down on the “chaotic” and illegal online promotion of religion, the official Global Times reported on Tuesday, part of a tough state campaign to bring (...)
Simon I. reports on the crackdown against eight young leftist activists in China’s Guangdong province—and what it may say about future struggles.
Commuting workers arrive at the outskirts of Beijing
SINCE LAST November, a group of eight young leftist activists have been facing prosecution by (...)
Translations of letters by two of the four young activists arrested at Guangdong University of Technology two months ago, and our brief commentary. The translation of a third detainee’s letter is forthcoming.
On November 15, 2017, police stormed into a student reading group at the Guangdong (...)
China’s one-party state has long sought to silence critical voices having been concerned about maintenance of control and regime stability. Following Xi Jinping’s rise to power, the country has once again been witnessing a harder line in this respect as the regime has cracked down on various (...)
New law issued as part of President Xi Jinping’s crackdown on disloyalty to the state alarms democracy movements in Hong Kong and Macau.
China has made disrespect of the national anthem a crime punishable by up to three years in jail, as it focuses on cementing the patriotic “China dream” of its (...)
Stop persecution, immediate freedom for Liu Xia
Liu Xiaobo, Nobel Peace Prize Winner and a prisoner of conscience, has passed away on 13 July 2017 at age 61. Liu Xiaobo was arrested in 2008 and charged for “inciting subversion of state power”, and at the same time, his wife, Liu Xia, was under (...)
We hold the CCP government responsible for Liu Xiaobo’s pre-mature death. No one should be thrown into prison, let alone left to rot there, simply for exercising the right to free speech. The CCP even went so far as to intervene in Liu’s family’s arrangements for his funeral, scattering Liu’s (...)
China bans Winnie the Pooh on social media after comparisons with President Xi Jinping. Upcoming Communist Party congress means even tighter state control of social media is likely, experts say.
Winnie the Pooh is next to get the Disney live-action remake treatment Disney.
China’s drive (...)
Evacuation of political prisoner must be allowed after foreign doctors cleared him to travel, say Amnesty and others.
Activists are demanding the immediate release of China’s most famous political prisoner, the critically ill Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo, after two foreign doctors said he is well (...)
Jiang Tianyong
Lawyer Jiang Tianyong (江天勇) has been incommunicado for nine days as of today, and repeated attempts by his wife and lawyers to confirm his whereabouts and the circumstances of his disappearance have been met with obstruction. He’s believed to have been abducted by the Chinese (...)
Chinese Human Rights Lawyers Group, September 13, 2016
On September 13, 2016, Chinese Human Rights Lawyers Group marks the third anniversary of its founding.
Over the last three years, the Chinese Human Rights Lawyers Group has been an open platform for lawyers, offering them a channel to (...)
Ai Xiaoming is one of China’s leading documentary filmmakers and political activists. Since 2004, she has made more than two dozen films, many of them long, gritty documentaries that detail citizen activism or uncover whitewashed historical events. Among them are Taishi Village, which recounts (...)
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